Cisco Will Eliminate Hard Coded Passwords One Per Month It seems like every patch cycle, Cisco admits to another app that has an undocumented hard coded password. I have lost track of how many of them they have removed so far, but the number is scary large. What is more scary is that I bet […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First a disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and don’t pretend to be one on the Internet – at least most of the time. The Uber Waymo trade secret theft trial is being delayed once again. Why? Because the Department of Justice showed the Judge a 37 page letter from the lawyer of a former […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This may turn out to be a lesson in Internet law for everyone. In October 2016, hackers breached Uber’s systems and made off with personal information for 57 million customers. They also made off with other information for 7 million Uber drivers and 600,000 drivers license numbers. Uber says that no socials or credit cards […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One thing about data rich environments – you have to trust that the data keepers do what they say they are going to do. As we all know, Uber collects a lot of data – even data that they don’t know what they will use it for – but surely they will need it in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the downsides of collecting data is that you may have to disclose it. In Uber’s case, it collects a lot of data, so regulators and law enforcement can ask for that data. In this case, even though the release of all this data is not a breach, it still could be a cause […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if Uber didn’t have enough challenges, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint with the FTC against Uber. EPIC says, in it’s complaint, that Uber’s new privacy policy allows Uber to collect precise customer location information, even if the app is running in the background or the customer has turned off their […]
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